Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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Firstly, it looks like I'm finally coming to Cleveland on Saturday, April 27th, so if you're in Cleveland and you want to tell me off then pencil it in your calendar and I'll furnish you with additional details soon.

Cleveland.

Secondly, you can never have too many bikes. Sure, you might not need another one, but every so often an opportunity arises that's simply too good to pass up. That's why I'm snatching up this beauty:

Why would anybody want one of those Dario Pegoretti tie-dye hippie burnout paint jobs when you could have someone going to town on your rear suspension instead?

(Yawn.)

By the way, in case you were wondering, the seller confirms that's actually a woman on there:

Interesting older Carbon Y frame with quite the custom paint job on it. With love and understanding, I am sure this bike can go again. It is a large, 19 from center to top. I checked the carbon and found no cracks in the frame. Their is a small hole drilled next to the head tube as seen in picture as well as a large chip by the blues brothers looking dudes. Yes it is a woman painted on there. The bike also comes with manitou axel fork that the stanchions have some oxidation on them. Has LX front and rear derailluers, wheels are decent with ritchey zero hubs, cane creek headset, 9spd cassette, mismatched brakes as well as 1 grip shifter and 1 deore rapid fire shifter, dia compe brake levers and system 2 bar and stem. I probably have a few smalls I can throw in as well with the bike. I am hoping for the money I am asking, someone will want to bring her back and let her feel the road and trails again.

Please ask questions and thanks for looking.

Shipping is 55.00 and local pick-up is never a problem.

Though it would be pretty amusing if "she" had a "surprise" waiting for you on the drive side.

(Surprise!)

Evidently it happens enough that the seller felt compelled to mention it.

In the span of four weeks, five motorists collided with pedestrians on the sidewalks of New York City, killing three and severely injuring two others. But as we've seen time and again, the drivers responsible face no serious consequences for their actions. “I hope this is an eye-opener and we have some change, because it's really, truly heartbreaking,” the daughter of 90-year-old Mansoor Day tells the Post. Day—co-founder of one of New York’s first abortion clinics—is still in extremely critical condition after SUV driver Richard Mouss crashed into him on the sidewalk outside Sak's Fifth Avenue in February.

The horrifying crash in Long Island City that left one teen dead and sent four other pedestrians to the hospital yesterday morning was caused by spilled milk, according to one police source, who also tells WPIX 11 that the driver, Mohamad Keita, was speeding in excess of 35 mph. The unidentified driver of the dark red Dodge Caravan lost control of the vehicle shortly after 10:30 a.m. and drove up onto the sidewalk near LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens. The police source says the driver is attributing the wreck to spilled milk, and a witness says he immediately got out and started apologizing.

Just make sure you have insurance, or else you might get in big trouble.

Just kidding!

No, it's totally fine, you'll only get a summons:

Despite a police source's assessment that the driver was speeding, Keita does not currently face any criminal charges, merely a summons for driving without insurance.

Another reason is apparently that it's laterally stiff, vertically compliant, and panda-satiating in every direction:"When I first made a bamboo bike and tested it, I rode it and after one or two hundred meters I was like, 'Where's all the vibration gone?' And that's the feeling when you're riding a bamboo bike. The vibrations just disappear."

I'd like to know what kind of bicycles these people were riding that vibrated so much. Maybe I have an armadillo for a scranus, but I've never experienced this punishing vibration people talk about (at least not on a bicycle)--except when I was much younger and much Fredlier and stupidly tried inflating my tires to 145psi because someone at the bike shop told me I could do that and that it would make me faster. (Hanging around in bike shops is a dangerous source of misinformation, and it's also the reason people go around saying that long stems produce a "goofy tiller effect.")

Then of course there's the whole "sustainable" thing:

Iron Bamboo has recorded over three feet of growth in a single day, and it only requires water, sunlight, and soil to grow. It’s a grass that naturally grows back after being harvested. It prevents soil erosion, does not contribute to soil depletion like many other crops, and is one of the most efficient means of sequestering carbon dioxide known to man.We use aluminum because it is the easiest metal to recycle and is strong, stiff, and light.

Okay, I'm looking at the bike, and it's made from all the same crap every other bike is made from, except it also has a few pieces of bamboo gratuitously wedged in there for some reason. How is this bike more sustainable? This is like putting a bamboo muffler on your car and saying it's suddenly a "sustainable automobile." And if aluminum is strong, stiff, light, and easy to recycle, why not just make the whole frame out of it?

Wow, a bicycle frame made entirely out of aluminum. It would probably be light, durable, and relatively inexpensive. Imagine that.

I am like you in that I have never suffered from these bad vibrations on my bike, aluminum included. That said, the Toronto zoo just got Pandas and bamboo does not grow in Canada. Time to order up a few bikes...

Almost daily at BSNYC or Gothamist you can read about the ongoing carnage of pedestrians and Cyclistsby NYC motor vehicles, no one charged with murder maybe a Ghost bike here and there as a reminder...But over in the UK Frederick The Schmendrick pushes the envelope of insanity in his high vis vest and no one dies? Strange

I also ride a nearly 10 year old aluminum bike-fast frame. It still has 2 round wheels and it's still fast. A crabon frame would be lighter, but for several $k's it's far cheaper to drop 5lbs from my fat ass.

You're all misunderstanding that bike-fitting picture. It is crucial that the angle of the scranus matches that of the seat. When you see a seat pointed ridiculously downward, you should feel pity for the poor dude with the tilted scranus that rides the thing.

Babble your rear suspension looks to be pretty stiff. Has it got the new Specialized Brain Technology that will give in on the really hard hits but stay firm when things are only mildly choppy? Pervious minds want to know. I want to know.

Cleveland cycling community buzzing about your Saturday 4/27 visit. Why not fly in Friday night and join hundreds of friends for Cleveland Critical Mass? It would be great to have you join up. Send flight details and we could ride out to the airport and meet you.

I like the neatly folded tea towel on the oven that the reverse cowgirl bike is leaning on.

And if that painting is accurate (and I have no doubt that it is, it's like a gynecological textbook on the side of a bike), then, no, we wouldn't be able to see her clit or the part of the bike that would represent it.

You scoff at the "expert advice" from forums, and bike shops. You are becoming one of those weird guys that ignores the "rules", and sets up their bike however suits their fancy..... soon you will have windmills and 6' flags attached to the rear, and two extra sets of handlemabars hose clamped to the primary bars.

TILLER EFFECT??? Don't get all high tech on me... it's comfortable and I like it...

Chamois, if this is a schtick, it's mildly amusing. If not, you are just going to have to accept the fact that WCRM does something in a non-Chamois Juice-approved fashion; while this may destroy the rest of your life, please don't keep whining about it here. Unless you can be funny about it.

...the y-foil road version needs a dark haired, dressier, black evening wear chick although still with her skirt hiked up around her waist, exposing her sheer dark stockings, heels & without all those cables in the way, the whispiest whisper of a thong...

"One DA explained: "You really have to show the jury that it's not their conduct that is being tried here."

The guy who killed the couple and their baby, his lawyer (with violin playing and a box of tissues handy) said he's had a hard life growing up and the reason he fled the scene of the accident is because he's afraid of authority figures.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could do something about drunk drivers? (not just the ones drinking milk). Seattle had a drunk driver squash 3 generations of one family. Drunk shit-head had two prior convictions of DUI and was driving without a license.

Yeah that accident in front of Eckstein Middle School happened like 10 blocks from where I live, scary. Seems crazy that one takes their life in their hands walking down the street in FREAKING WEDGWOOD. But people don't slow down when you are crossing the street, and sometimes one do-gooder slows down but there are three other assholes speeding around that person. That 75th and 35th area is particularly bad. I wish that guy wasn't a multiple DUI guy because probably no one will take a look at the streets there now.

The Schwalbe company informs me that they're developed the perfect tire for Ironman comps - very technical. But why would these Ironmen/women need tires at all? Why not standardize on solid-iron bikes including wheels? They aren't trying to set speed records; they're just trying to show more iron than the next guy. One mile on mountain trails with a 200-pound bike would do the trick. As for me I am waiting for the bike frame made of Unobtanium, which will weigh a negative ten pounds. You have to remember to tie it up, though.

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While I love cycling and embrace it in all its forms, I'm also extremely critical. So I present to you my venting for your amusement and betterment. No offense meant to the critiqued. Always keep riding!